Harare (New Ziana) – A Nyanga woman has been jailed for six months for assaulting and scalding another with boiling water.

Tinotenda Kutsanza (24) of Chigura Village, Chief Saunyama, Nyanga was convicted by the Nyanga Magistrates’ Court for assaulting and scalding the complainant with boiling water on August 2 last year.

According to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ), Kutsanza and the complainant were seated in Kutsanza’s kitchen when Kutsanza poured boiling water on the complainant.

The complainant tried to run away, but Kutsanza caught up with her and assaulted her with clenched fists and booted feet all over the body. An informant intervened and restrained Kutsanza from further assaulting the complainant who sustained burns on the right hand and breast.

Kutsanza was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, but the magistrates’ court conditionally suspended three months of the jail term for five years, leaving her to serve an effective six months imprisonment.

New Ziana